History of Pashtuns

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Khyber Pass, 1878-9 (c).




Photograph of the Khyber Pass, taken from a high vantage point before the advance of the British forces. A river runs through the pass, with steep rocky mountains to either side. A small group of Indian soldiers can just be seen in the foreground to the right.

The photographer John Burke travelled with the Peshawar Valley Field Force during the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80), one of a series of conflicts between Britian and Russia over control of Afghanistan. His images from the war capture landscapes, key strategic sites and soldiers involved in the conflict.

 

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Peshawar Valley Field Force advancing through the Khyber Pass, 1878-9 (c).

Photograph of troops from the Peshawar Valley Field Force advancing through the Khyber Pass, using a road built by Colonel Mackeson during the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-42). A large group of soldiers, wearing uniform and carrying guns, are standing and sitting along a road built into the rocky mountainside.

The photographer John Burke travelled with the Peshawar Valley Field Force during the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80), one of a series of conflicts between Britian and Russia over control of Afghanistan. His images from the war capture landscapes, key strategic sites and soldiers involved in the conflict.

© John Burke / Royal Collection Trust

 

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A survey group in the Kurram Valley, 1879 (c).

Photograph by Bourne and Shepherd, 2nd Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880), 1879.
Much of the surveying of India's terrain was carried out by the British during their rule there.

However, as this photograph shows, the British surveyors were accompanied by local soldiers and other men while they worked. This photograph was taken in Kurram, then on the border between British India and Afghanistan.

 

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Khyber district map.

 

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Khurram 1910 to 1940

 

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1895, Kurram and location of tribes.

 

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Another map of Peshawar Valley showing the routes taken by Alexander and Babar.

Source: Ahmad Hassan Dani’s Peshawar-